Ukraine Flails as Proxy/Coalition War Scheme Comes Apart
How the way the West conducted a novel coalition war in Ukraine looks to have made a bad situation worse.
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Big Meat and Dairy Delegates Triple at COP28
Big Ag fights back at COP28
Read more...Russia and Gaza: “One War, One Election At a Time” – One Step Forward for National Liberation, Two Steps Back
More from John Helmer on how Russia is navigating the fraught political situation in the Middle East.
Read more...America’s War for the Greater Middle East (Continued)
Washington’s never-ending war in the Middle East is dangerously close to a calamitous escalation.
Read more...Iran President Raisi Asks President Putin To Support Gaza Action – Putin Is Evasive for the Moment
Putin ducked a request by Iran for support with respect to Gaza….but what might Raisi actaully want?
Read more...“No NATO” for Ukraine, Ukrainian Politician Says
Some Ukraine officials now depict the US as quietly opposed to Ukraine joining NATO, even as Jens Stoltenberg is still hyping it
Read more...Myanmar’s Instability Deepens as the World Watches Silently
Militants threaten Myanmar’s military government. But other non-state actors, as well as China, are vying for influence.
Read more...Plastic Is Here to Stay. Can It Be Made More Sustainably?
Redesigning plastic requires making trade-offs between cost, scalability, emissions, toxicity, and more. But how about using less?
Read more...Is American Banking Safe? You Might Not Like The Answer from Two Fed Veterans
Walker Todd and Bill Bergman expose the untold story of banking instability, regulatory battles, and the struggle to protect the public.
Read more...EU and US Ukraine Funding Even More in Doubt as War Effort Falters
Things are going from bad to worse for Ukraine, and at an accelerating pace too.
Read more...NATO/West or Global Majority? Unipolar Destruction or Multipolar Development? The World Must Choose
Yves here. While there is a lot of merit in the latest discussion between Radhika Desai and Micheal Hudson on their favorite topic of mutlipolarity, I feel compelled to correct some imprecisions. The video depicts the “German government” as having “raised” the debt brake but then “not being allowed” with no depiction of agency, to […]
Read more...Solving the Climate Crisis Means Ending Our Addiction to Economic Growth
COP28 may toy with wide-ranging reforms needed to arrest a climate disaster. But arguablly necessary governance structures seem unattainable.
Read more...Wall Street Journal: “Why No One Wants to Pay for the Green Transition”
The green energy transition, which truth be told has not gotten very far, is already hitting a wall.
Read more...The Thousand Boat Blockade-Busting Operation Changes Everything on the Gaza Front – if It Materialises
The Turkiye-sponsored thousand-boat flotilla, scheduled to set sail for Gaza this past Wednesday, looks to be a non-starter. What happened?
Read more...The Destructively High Energy Cost of AI
More data on the energy cost of AI, which is projected soon to exceed that of several small countries.
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